High School Musical 3 Leads List of Oscar Eligible Songs Unveiled by Academy

Variety has reported the 49 eligible songs that are in the running for Oscar nominations.

The list includes 11 tracks from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" and three from "Repo! The Genetic Opera."

Members of the Academy's music branch will vote on the final nomination list at a Jan. 6 screening event. DVDs of the song clips will be mailed to those who can't attend reports Variety

To be eligible, a song must contain original words and music written specifically for the film. In a change to the rules, only two songs from a single film may be nominated.

High School Musical premiered on Disney Channel on January 20, 2006, and became the highest rated original movie up until that time. It won the Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Children's Programming, and received two Emmy Awards (of its total 6 nominations), a DGA Award, an Imagen Award for Best Children's Program, and a Humanitas Prize nomination. The soundtrack received a Billboard Music Award for Soundtrack of the Year, and was nominated for an American Music Award in the Favorite Album (Pop/Rock) category. The film even earned an entry in the Guinness World Record Book as the first TV movie to deliver nine concurrent singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

High School Musical 2, the sequel to Disney's smash TV hit, premiered on the Disney Channel on August 17, 2007 and drew an estimated 17.2 million viewers on Friday night, making it the most-watched basic cable telecast ever and garnered the most tween viewership ever.

High School Musical 3 opened in theaters nation wide on October 24th, 2008. 

The full list of eligible songs, listed alphabetically by film, is below.

"By the Boab Tree" from "Australia"

"Barking at the Moon" from "Bolt"

"I Thought I Lost You" from "Bolt"

"Once in a Lifetime" from "Cadillac Records"

"The Call" from "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"

"It Ain't Right" from "Dark Streets"

"Too Much Juice" from "Dark Streets"

"Dracula's Lament" from "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"

"Drive" from "Fuel"

"Gran Torino" from "Gran Torino"

"Rock Me Sexy Jesus" from "Hamlet 2"

"The Boys Are Back" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"Can I Have This Dance" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"High School Musical" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"I Want It All" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"Just Getting Started" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"Just Wanna Be with You" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"A Night to Remember" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"Now or Never" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"Right Here Right Now" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"Scream" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"Walk Away" from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year"

"Di Notte" from "The Lodger"

"The Traveling Song" from "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"

"The Story" from "My Blueberry Nights"

"The Code of Life" from "My Dream"

"In Rodanthe" from "Nights in Rodanthe"

"Nothing but the Truth" from "Nothing but the Truth"

"Djoyigbe" from "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"

"Waterline" from "Pride and Glory"

"Another Way to Die" from "Quantum of Solace"

"Up to Our Nex" from "Rachel Getting Married"

"Chase the Morning" from "Repo! The Genetic Opera"

"Chromaggia" from "Repo! The Genetic Opera"

"Zydrate Anatomy" from "Repo! The Genetic Opera"

"Broken and Bent" from "Role Models"

"Code of Silence" from "Save Me"

"Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire"

"O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire"

"Little Person" from "Synecdoche, New York"

"Right to Dream" from "Tennessee"

"Forever" from "They Killed Sister Dorothy"

"Trouble the Water" from "Trouble the Water"

"Down to Earth" from "WALL-E"

"The Little Things" from "Wanted"

"Count on Me" from "The Women"

"The Wrestler" from "The Wrestler"

"Sweet Ballad" from "Yes Man"

"Yes Man" from "Yes Man"